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A South Korean district court has ruled for the first time regarding the nature of digital currencies. In the case where 216 bitcoins were seized by the police as criminal proceeds, the Korean court rules bitcoin that it is inappropriate to confiscate bitcoins...

The All-Russia People’s Front (ONF), led by President Vladimir Putin, has submitted a proposal to the Russian government to create a Green Cryptocurrency to promote green energy and the development of environmental projects.
The coordinator of the ONF project...

ViaBTC CEO Haipo Yang tweeted that “China will shut down all exchanges,” lending credence to the rumors that the country will make it illegal to operate a bitcoin exchange.
Earlier today, regional Chinese media outlet Caixin posted an article claiming that ...

Not too long ago, the Bitcoin world learned of an ongoing court involving the IRS and Coinbase case. The US government agency sought to pull data from Coinbase users to ensure no one evaded taxes. Since this request was made, there have been a few updates on ...

The Monero price has until recently struggled to recover from the recent cryptocurrency market dip. This popular altcoin had taken a lot more losses compared to some other coins. Fast forward a few days, and Monero has seen a major price spike out of the blue ...

Japan’s leading internet conglomerate and bitcoin exchange operator GMO has announced that it is expanding into the businesses of bitcoin mining and chip manufacturing. The company revealed plans to produce and sell 7nm semiconductor chips and run a mining fac...

Exodus, the popular bitcoin and cryptocurrency desktop wallet with built-in exchange today stated that the company will not support Bitcoin Cash (BCC) on the platform. Nevertheless, users of Exodus will still be able to claim their BCC by importing their priva...

Users on Estonian-based cloud mining service HashFlare were informed over the weekend that SHA-256 mining contracts are now out of stock. Subsequently, the company has temporarily suspended purchases of SHA-256 contracts until the next hardware delivery to its...

During a conversation with Muneeb Ali of Blockstack at Blockstack Summit 2017, BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen shared some of his thoughts on the current state of the Bitcoin development process. Key viewpoints shared by Cohen included a preference for soft for...

Through the execution of forks and protocol changes, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Litecoin have been highly successful in improving their underlying infrastructures in terms of privacy, security and scalability considering the major issue for bitcoi...